151.

152.

153.

and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and one-tenth
of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty wire gauge
and not thinner than number twenty-five wire gauge, one and two-
tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty-five wire
gauge and not thinner than number twenty-nine wire gauge, one
and five-tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty-
nine wire gauge, (998.) and all iron commercially known as common
or black taggers iron, (1037.) whether put up in boxes or bundles
or not, thirty per centum ad valorem: (1037.)

c. And provided, That on all such iron and steel sheets or plates
aforesaid excepting on what are known commercially as tin-plates,
terne-plates, and taggers tin, and hereafter provided for, when gal-
vanized or coated with zinc or spelter, or other metals, or any alloy
of those metals, three-fourths of one cent per pound additional.
a. Polished, planished, or glanced sheet-iron or sheet-steel, by what-
ever name designated, two and one-half cents per pound: (997.)
b. Provided, That plate or sheet or taggers iron, by whatever name
designated, other than the polished, planished, or glanced herein
provided for, which has been pickled or cleaned by acid, or by any
other material or process, and which is cold rolled, shall pay one-
quarter cent per pound more duty than the corresponding gauges
of common or black sheet or taggers iron.

a. Iron or steel sheets, or plates, or taggers iron, coated with tin or
lead, or with a mixture of which these metals is a component part,
by the dipping or any other process, and commercially known as
tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, one cent per pound; (2180.)
b. Corrugated or crimped sheet iron or steel, one and four-tenths of
one cent per pound. (1051.)

a. Hoop, or band, or scroll, or other iron, eight inches or less in width, and not thinner than number ten wire gauge, one cent per pound; thinner than number ten wire gauge and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and two-tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty wire gauge, one and four-tenths of one cent per pound: (999, 1000-1.)

154. b. Provided, That all articles not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, whether wholly or partly manufactured, made from sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iron herein provided for, or of which such sheet, plate, hoop, band, or scroll iròn shall be the material of chief value, shall pay one-fourth of one cent per pound more duty than that imposed on the iron from which they are made, or which shall be such material of chief value.

155. Iron and steel cotton-ties, or hoops for baling purposes, not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. (1067.) 156. Cast-iron pipe of every description, one cent per pound. (1031.)

157. Cast-iron vessels, plates, stove-plates, andirons, sadirons, tailors' irons, hatters' irons, and castings of iron, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, one and one-quarter of one cent per pound. (1030.)

158. Cut nails and spikes, of iron or steel, one and one-quarter of one cent per pound. (1025.)

159. Cut tacks, brads, or sprigs, not exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, two and one half cents per thousand; exceeding sixteen ounces to the thousand, three cents per pound. (1027.)

160. Iron or steel railway fish-plates, or splice-bars, one and one-fourth of one cent per pound. (908, 1012, 1067.)

161. Malleable iron castings, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, two cents per pound. (1020.)

162. Wrought iron or steel spikes, (1012. 1023) nuts, and washers, (1012, 1021.) and horse, mule, or ox shoes, two cents per pound. (1012, 1067.)

163. Anvils, (1017.) anchors,* or parts thereof, (1019.) mill-irons and millcranks, of wrought iron and wrought-iron for ships, (1016.) and forgings of iron and steel, for vessels, steam-engines, and locomotives, or parts thereof, weighing each twenty-five pounds or more, two cents per pound. (1012–16.)

164. Iron or steel rivets, bolts, with or without threads or nuts, or boltblanks, and finished hinges or hinge-blanks, two and one-half of one cent per pound. (1012-23-32.)

165. Iron or steel blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, (1020.) track-tools, wedges, and crowbars, (1012.) two and one half of one cent per pound.

166. Iron or steel axles, parts thereof, axle-bars, axle-blanks, or forgings for axles, without reference to the stage or state of manufacture, two and one-half of one cent per pound. (1020.)

167. Forgings of iron and steel, or forged iron, of whatever shape, or in whatever stage of manufacture, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, two and one-half cents per pound. (1012, 1067.)

168. Horseshoe-nails, hob-nails, (1026.) and wire-nails, (1067.) and all other wrought-iron (1023.) or steel nails, (1012.) not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, four cents per pound.

169. Boiler tubes, or flues, or stays, of wrought-iron or steel, three cents per pound. (1012, 1024.)

170. Other wrought iron or steel tubes or pipes, two and one-quarter cents per pound. (1012, 1067.)

171. Chain or chains of all kinds, made of iron or steel, not less than threefourths of one inch in diameter, one and three-quarter cents per pound; less than three-fourths of one inch and not less than three-eighths of one inch in diameter, two cents per pound; less than three-eighths of one inch in diameter, two and one-half cents per pound. (1012-18.)

172. Cross-cut saws, eight cents per linear foot. (1042.)

173. Mill, pit, and drag saws, not over nine inches wide, ten cents per linear foot; over nine inches wide, fifteen cents per linear foot. (1043.)

174. Circular saws, thirty per centum ad valorem. (1012.)

175. Hand, back, and all other saws, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty per centum ad valorem. (1004–5.)

176. Files, file blanks, rasps, and floats of all cuts and kinds, four inches in length and under, thirty-five cents per dozen; over four inches in length and under nine inches, seventy-five cents per dozen; nine inches in length and under fourteen inches, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen; fourteen inches in length and over, two dollars and fifty cents per dozen. (1006.)

177.

a. Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, and slabs, by whatever process made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or bevelled bars; bands, hoops, strips, and sheets † of all gauges and widths; plates of all thicknesses and widths; steamer, crank, and other shafts; wrist or crank pins; connecting-rods and piston-rods; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes, or blanks of sheet or plate steel, or combination of steel and iron, punched or not punched; hammer-moulds or swaged steel; gun-moulds, not in bars; alloys used as substitutes for steel tools; all descriptions and shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron-moulded steel castings,

b. All of the above classes of steel not otherwise specially provided for in this act, valued at four cents a pound or less, forty-five per centum ad valorem; above four cents a pound and not above seven cents

"An anchor and chain cable purchased in a foreign port to supply the place of one which has become unseaworthy in the course of the voyage, and which is bona fide a part of the equipment of an American vessel, is not subject to duty on being brought into a port of the United States. It is, however, not sufficient that they be merely used as a part of the equipment of the vessel; they must be bona fide such, under a necessity not occasioned by any fault of her master or owners in not properly equipping her originally." (Weld vs. Maxwell, 4 Bl. C. C., p. 136.)

"Steel in sheets, invoiced as the best cross-cuts, though it may be used for saws, should not be classified as cross-cut saws partially manufactured, at ten cents per lineal foot, since the same material may be used for hay-knives, mowing-machine knives, and other purposes. It should be classified as steel in sheets,' and pay duty according to its value per pound." (August, 1868, N. O., and April 21, 1871, N. Y.)

177.

per pound, two cents per pound; valued above seven cents and not above ten cents per pound, two and three-fourth cents per pound; valued at above ten cents per pound, three and one-fourth cents per pound:

c. Provided, That on all iron or steel bars, rods, strips, or steel sheets, of whatever shape, and on all iron or steel bars of irregular shape or section, cold-rolled, cold-hammered, or polished in any way in addition to the ordinary process of hot-rolling or hammering, there shall be paid one-fourth cent per pound, IN ADDITION to the rates provided in this act;

d. And on steel circular saw plates there shall be paid one cent per pound IN ADDITION to the rate provided in this act.

178. Iron or steel beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, TT, columns and posts, or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams, and building forms, together with all other structural shapes of iron or steel, one and one-fourth of one cent per pound.

179.

180.

a. Steel wheels and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or partly finished, and iron or steel locomotive, car, and other railway tires, or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, two and one-half of one cent per pound;

b. Iron or steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms or blanks for the same, without regard to the degree of manufacture, two cents per pound. a. Iron or steel rivet, screw, nail and fence, wire rods, round, in coils and loops, not lighter than number five wire gauge, valued at three and one-half cents or less per pound, six-tenths of one cent per pound. b. Iron or steel, flat with longitudinal ribs for the manufacture of fencing, six-tenths of a cent per pound. 181. Screws, commonly called wood screws, two inches or over in length, six cents per pound; one inch and less than two inches in length, eight cents per pound; over one-half inch and less than one inch in length, ten cents per pound; one-half inch and less in length, twelve cents per pound. (1028.)

182.

a. Iron or steel wire, smaller than number five and not smaller than number ten wire gauge, one and one-half cents per pound; smaller than number ten and not smaller than number sixteen wire gauge, two cents per pound; smaller than number sixteen and not smaller than number twenty-six wire gauge, two and one-half cents per pound; smaller than number twenty-six wire gauge, three cents per pound: (994, 1039.)

b. Provided, That iron or steel wire covered with cotton, silk, or other material, and wire commonly known as crinoline, corset, and hat wire, shall pay four cents per pound IN ADDITION to the foregoing rates (994, 1040.)

c. And provided further, That no article made from iron or steel wire, or of which iron or steel wire is a component part of chief value, shall pay a less rate of duty than the iron or steel wire from which it is made either wholly or in part: (916.)

d. And provided further, That iron or steel wire-cloths, and iron or steel wire-nettings, made in meshes of any form, shall pay a duty equal in amount to that imposed on iron or steel wire of the same gauge, and two cents per pound IN ADDITION thereto.

e. There shall be paid on galvanized iron or steel wire (except fence wire), one-half of one cent per pound IN ADDITION to the rate imposed on the wire of which it is made.

f. On iron wire rope and wire strand, one cent per pound IN ADDITION to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is made. (994.)

g. On steel wire rope and wire strand, two cents per pound IN ADDITION to the rates imposed on the wire of which it is made.

183.

a. Steel, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, forty-five per centum ad valorem; (1041.)

b. Provided, That all metal produced from iron or its ores, which is cast and malleable, of whatever description or form, without regard to the percentage of carbon contained therein, whether produced by cementation, or converted, cast, or made from iron or its ores, by the crucible, Bessemer, pneumatic, Thomas-Gilchrist, basic, Siemens-Martin, or open-hearth process, or by the equivalent of either, or by the combination of two or more of the processes, or their equivalents, or by any fusion or other process which produces from iron or its ores a metal either granular or fibrous in structure, which is cast and malleable, excepting what is known as malleable iron castings, shall be classed and denominated as steel. (1014.)

184. No allowance or reduction of duties for partial loss or damage in consequence of rust or of discoloration shall be made upon any description of iron or steel, or upon any partly manufactured article of iron or steel, or upon any manufacture of iron and steel. (1041.)

185. Argentine, albata, or German silver unmanufactured, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. (1185.)

186.

a. Copper, imported in the form of ores, two and one-half cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; (1053.)

b. Regulus of and black or coarse copper, and copper cement, three and one-half cents on each pound of fine copper contained therein; (1054.) old copper, fit only for manufacture, (1055.) clippings from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, three cents per pound. (1057.)

c. Copper in plates, bars, ingots, Chili or other pigs, and in other forms, not manufactured, or enumerated in this act, four cents per pound. (1056.)

d. In rolled plates, called brazier's copper, sheets, rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, (1057.)

e. And all manufactures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component of chief value, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. (1057.)

187. Brass, in bars or pig, old brass, and clippings from brass or Dutch metal, one and one-half cent per pound. (1063.)

188. Lead ore, and lead dross, one and one-half cent per pound. (1045.) 189. Lead, in pigs and bars, (1046.) molten and old refuse lead run into blocks and bars, (908, 1046.) and old scrap lead, fit only to be remanufactured, two cents per pound. (1047.)

190. Lead, in sheets, pipes, or shot, three cents per pound. (1044.)

191. Nickel, in ore, matte, or other crude form not ready for consumption in the arts, fifteen cents per pound on the nickel contained therein. (1334.) 192. Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy of any kind in which nickel is the element of chief value, fifteen cents per pound. (1060.)

193.

a. Zinc, spelter, or tutenegue, in blocks or pigs, (1048.) and old worn out zinc, fit only to be remanufactured, (1816.) one and one-half cent per pound;

b. Zinc, spelter, or tutenegue in sheets,* two and one-half cents per pound. (1049.)

194. Sheathing, or yellow metal, not wholly of copper, nor wholly nor in

* "Sheet zinc purchased in the foreign country in a damaged condition, and in the original packages in which it was placed when manufactured, cannot be classified as a 'metal unmanufactured, not otherwise provided for, but is liable to the duty specially imposed by law on sheet zinc, viz., 2% cents per pound." (November 11, 1870. Bost. Syn. Ser., 752.)

"Sheathing metal" was imported per British Brig "Chesapeake" intended to be used in sheathing the bottom of the said brig; and no portion of it was intended to be landed or used for any other purpose. Held, that it was not exempt from duty, and that the remission of duty could not be legally granted. (September 15, 1863. Baltimore.)

part of iron, ungalvanized, in sheets, forty-eight inches long and fourteen inches wide, and weighing from fourteen to thirty-four ounces per square foot, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. (1058.)

195. Antimony, as regulus or metal, ten per centum ad valorem. (1190.) 196. Bronze powder, fifteen per centum ad valorem. (1218.)

197. Cutlery, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem. (1257.)

198. Dutch or bronze metal, in leaf, ten per centum ad valorem. (1263.) 199. Steel plates, engraved, (1391.) stereotype plates, (1497.) and new types, (1442.) twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

200. Gold-leaf, one dollar and fifty cents per package of five hundred leaves, (1061.)

201. Hollow-ware,* coated, glazed, or tinned, three cents per pound. (1033.) 202. Muskets, rifles, and other fire-arms, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. (1340.)

203. All sporting breech-loading shot-guns, and pistols of all kinds, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem. (1340.)

201. Forged shot gun barrels, rough-bored, ten per centum ad valorem. (1012,) (1067.)

205. Needles,† for knitting or sewing machines, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. (1010.)

206. Needles, sewing, darning, knitting, and all others not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. (1342.) a. Pen-knives, pocket-knives, of all kinds, and razors, fifty per centum ad valorem; (1007.)

207.

b. Swords, sword-blades, and side-arms, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. (1008-9.)

a. Pens, metallic, twelve cents per gross; (1380.)

208.b. pen-holder-tips and pen-holders, or parts thereof, (1381.) thirty per centum ad valorem.

209. Pins, solid-head or other, thirty per centum ad valorem. (1384.)

210. Britannia ware, and plated and gilt articles and wares of all kinds, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. (1216.)

211. Quicksilver, ten per centum ad valorem. (2187.)

212. Silver leaf, seventy-five cents per package of five hundred leaves. (1061.) 213. Type-metal, twenty per centum ad valorem. (1443.)

214. Chromate of iron, or chromic ore, fifteen per centum ad valorem. (1334.)

215. Mineral substances in a crude state and metals unwrought, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, twenty per centum ad valorem. (1334.)

216. Manufactures, articles, or wares, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of iron, steel, copper, lead, nickel, pewter, tin, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, or any other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, forty-five per centum ad valorem. (1067.)

SCHEDULE D.-WOOD AND Wooden Wares.

217. Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves, twenty per centum ad valorem. (1133.)

This provision does not embrace any other hollow ware than castings of iron. (July 12, 1861, N. Y.) + Needles of English manufacture, rusted and exported for polishing, cannot be reimported free of duty. (October 24, 1868. A. C. & Co.)

Iron packages or casks containing caustic soda, used by the importers as the most suitable description of packages for caustic soda, were held to be entitled to entry at the same rate of duty as imposed on the caustic soda. (January 28, 1861. Philadelphia.)

A telegraph cable is not a non-enumerated article; it is liable, under the acts of 1861 and 1862, to a duty of 35 per cent. (U. S. vs. U. S. Telegraph Co., 7 Int. Rev. Rec., p. 141.)

Foreign chains imported to be left in the United States as mooring chains, for a line of foreign steam packets, become liable, on being landed, to duty as "manufactures of iron." (Tr. Reg., p. 560.)

Studs, bracelets, and watch-chains of gold, and watch-chains of silver, held by Department to be jew. elry; and classified as such under 459, "in view of the well-established and accepted commercial meaning of the term," viz., "personal ornaments in gold, silver, and precious stones." (Nov. 20, 1869. San. Fran.)